Based on the experience as member of the GEPFC (Group for Studies and Research of Philosophy for Children – São Paulo State University of Araraquara), the interest to investigate how is being formed the state of a subject in the context of imprisonment, was developed. First, we carried out a series of encounters of philosophy with adolescent violators of the law, who were serving socio-educative penalties. The practice was realized by contact with literary texts and with pieces of art. Our hypothesis was that these encounters would help us to understand – and to turn comprehensible – the process of formation of the group’s subjectivity. Investigated, besides others, were in their discourses: the practices lived by them and for them; glances, cast between and at them; spaces; relations; the comprehension and elaboration of new codes of conduct and communication; and finally the formulation of mechanisms of resistance. Two perspectives attracted our attention: The institution’s eye, centred in the discourses of citizenship, of social insertion, and of standardization and homogenizing of comportment, is being perceptible; Already by the look of the adolescents, physic and symbolic violence appears to be a possible form of emancipation and resistance. At the tangential point of the two eyes – one intern and the other extern – can still be noticed the school as a strong disciplinary institution which organizes the experiences lived by the group, once the presence or absence in this space is taken in consideration in a decisive way in the course of legal proceeding. We find then the materialization of the proposed opposition in subjectivity, formed by subjugation or by the search for practices of liberation. We searched the works of Michel Foucault for a theoretical basis which would explain our experience, helping us reflect on these singular creations which offer new space... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)